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MANCHESTER — Amby Burfoot made history last November when he ran his 51st consecutive Manchester Road Race. But other than a few brief moments on Main Street, the race's most famous runner and nine-time champion didn't get to truly embrace the race he loves because of health issues. "I just had dark shades in front of my face [last year]," Burfoot said. "I wasn't taking in much of anything. It was tunnel vision. I felt like I was looking down at my feet the whole time. I just couldn't see outside of myself. I was so troubled inside of myself. And of course, I was putting on a good face and trying to do the things you do, but I was so aware that I...

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MANCHESTER — Amby Burfoot made history last November when he ran his 51st consecutive Manchester Road Race. But other than a few brief moments on Main Street, the race's most famous runner and nine-time champion didn't get to truly embrace the race he...

NEW YORK — A year ago, Steve Enoch of Norwalk was a relatively unknown basketball prospect — even within Connecticut.
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For some Ravens fans, there might always be a place in their hearts for Ray Rice — at least the Ray Rice of old — but not on their backs.Thousands of fans lined up at M&T Bank Stadium on Friday to exchange their No. 27 jerseys for other shirts, part...

The Ravens on Thursday announced details of this weekend's Ray Rice jersey exchange, which will allow fans to turn in their No. 27 jerseys for another, following the former star running back’s release last week.
Rice was charged with aggravated assault...

The Ravens are offering a large-scale exchange of Ray Rice jerseys next week at M&T Bank Stadium.
Rice's $35 million contract was terminated Monday, and he's been indefinitely suspended by the NFL after a graphic...

CrossFit gets almost as much hate as Nickelback, and neither appear to be going anywhere.
I've had my own criticisms and shared #CrossFail videos on social media. I prefer solo exercise to a class environment and have a couple of bulging lumbar discs...

Since a memorial service at a sweltering, standing-room only Cole Field House was held a few days after Len Bias' death in June 1986, there has been little official connection between the former basketball All-American and the University of Maryland.
But...

At 24, Brian Jaffe got a job in the entertainment industry, sitting behind a desk all day. In just a few short years, his physique was not what it used to be.
"I got out of shape," says Jaffe, now 28. "I was at a job that didn't allow me...

Rick Ross built his career rapping about his exploits as an above-the-law drug kingpin, a front he kept up even after it was famously revealed that in a previous life the Miami MC had once worked as a Dade County corrections officer.
The news might...

Movie directors can come across as all sorts of personalities — arrogant, collegial, mercurial, dictatorial. Filmmaker Henry-Alex Rubin arrived on the set of "Disconnect", his first narrative feature, striking an unusual pose: clueless.
"I...

Was it the public outcry that got to him, or Reebok's decision to drop him as a pitchman? In either case, rapper-mogul Rick Ross has issued an apology for lyrics contained in his guest appearance with rapper Rocko on the track "U.O.E.N.O" that...

Months after Lil Wayne created a firestorm for lyrics that name-dropped slain civil rights figure Emmett Till along with a vulgar sexual reference, the rapper has formally apologized to Till’s family.
In a letter sent to the Till family, which they...

Corporations are quick to recruit rappers to sell their soft drinks, shoes and smartphones — but the moment there's a whiff of controversy, they are just as quick to cut them loose.
The latest example is PepsiCo and Lil Wayne. Last week, the soft drink...

People use wireless technology to communicate, game and entertain. USC's Center for Body Computing asks why not use that same tech to get fit or manage a health condition? At the center's annual conference, innovators presented ways in which health...

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CrossFit, founded in...

Football never has an offseason, and there’s always a way to make it about the Bears, whether the news comes from drugs, fashion or potential litigation. F’rinstance, Bill Parcells coming to the NFC North. That was the story from the New York Post...

[6:00 UPDATE]The Harrison twins have picked Kentucky. Maryland fans weap. Under Amour employees continue searching for their next next big thing. --------Aaron and Andrew Harrison, 6-5 twin guards out of Texas, will announce where they plan to play...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Greg Knox was shirtless, with his chest painted orange and black, the last time the Orioles were in a playoff game, the finale of the 1997 American League Championship Series.Knox, originally from Towson and a Calvert Hall graduate, was...

There is a word in fitness/health/weight loss marketing that is toxic. Sometimes it is blatant, other times implied. I hate this word. The word is "only."You have to work out only this teeny bit to get amazing results. You only have to take this...

Can you wobble your way to buns of steel?
The popularity of "toning" shoes, whose unstable soles require you to work muscles harder to stay balanced, suggests consumers are banking on it.
Sales of toning shoes, which cost from $70 to upwards...